On Sat October 29 2005 11:15 pm, taharka wrote: > > When you buy Multi-Tech products, you're paying for quality. Their > products are built in Mounds View, MN on state of the art Fuji pick and > place equipment. Each product comes with free life time technical > support via toll free number/email/fax back system. Multi-Tech modems > control the traffic signals to the on ramps of California's Freeways. > Multi-Tech also invented the VOIP & still holds the patent rights to it. > The next time you see armored car personel refilling an ATM machine, ask > them what brand of modem is in it ;-) About the best deal you'll get on > a Multi-Tech modem, is through "Modem Express". They are a few miles > west of the Mounds View plant in Plymouth, MN. Website is; modemexpress.com > Interesting. I guess this decision is in part dependent on your end-use. I keep a modem for one reason - I need to talk to an old DEC Alpha doc management system that is only accessible via dial-up. My cheaper solutions are perfectly adequate for that. If you need more robust solutions for much more robust end-use, I can see your point. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA